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14 December 2007

The Rules of Office Popcorn [More:]

1) DO NOT CROSS-CONTAMINATE THE POPCORN SECTIONS.
I do not like cheddar cheese popcorn in my carmel corn. Take small handfuls to avoid spillage.

2) IF YOU ARE TAKING MORE THAN SINGLE HANDFUL OF POPCORN, USE A BOWL.
Do not attempt to ferry popcorn back to your desk using your hands cupped against your stomach. You will leave a trail of corn in your wake.

3) DO NOT EAT POPCORN UNLESS YOU HAVE FLOSS AVAILABLE TO YOU.
Picking at the backside of your left lower molar in order to remove a pesky husk while I'm trying to discuss your TPS reports is just plain rude.
Yesterday, I made a big show of sneezing into the big divided popcorn tin, in front of several co workers. They did not know it was empty when I did it.

A nice moment.

Of course, I did not anticipate that the can had to then go into the metal recycling bin, and not be reused. Oh well.
posted by danf 14 December | 15:06
If your office has microwave popcorn, DO NOT BURN THE POPCORN. GOOD GOD THAT STINKS YOU IMBECILES.
posted by mullacc 14 December | 15:11
Offices have popcorn now?! Good lord, we need to get with the times here.
posted by chrismear 14 December | 15:31
If your office has microwave popcorn, DO NOT BURN THE POPCORN. GOOD GOD THAT STINKS YOU IMBECILES.

5): If you DO burn the popcorn regularly, eventually someone will catch you doing it and soon everyone in the office scornfully will call you "Burnt Popcorn Guy" (sometimes behind your back, sometimes to your face.) This will not add to your popularity.
posted by shane 14 December | 15:33
Eating things that other people have stuck their hands in grosses me out.
posted by amro 14 December | 15:33
I actually like a controlled release of carmel popcorn into the cheese section.
posted by pokermonk 14 December | 15:51
I'm with amro AND pokermonk.
posted by Specklet 14 December | 15:57
There's a trail of popcorn down the staircase between the third and fourth floors of my office. I'm eager to see how long it stays there, because I dont think anybody cleans that part of the building.
posted by pieisexactlythree 14 December | 15:59
I was a never a big fan of popcorn, and then I had that job in college in a movie theater, where we got great, huge bags of the pre-popped stuff, and put it in the light bulb box, and everybody ordered it with extra "butter" and salt. But I slowly developed a whole new respect for popcorn when I realized that despite the warmth and the obvious draw of what I thought of as bulk bug food in the popcorn "machine," that it was the one place in that whole snack bar I never saw a roach.

I've never seen a roach in even the filthiest, greasiest nasty popcorn enclosures I've come across. Down here in Florida, even fire ants will walk around popcorn kernels to get to Amdro pellets.

I've concluded popcorn is just too nasty to even be emergency bug food.
posted by paulsc 14 December | 16:28
Who wants my cheddar popcorn? (Can't stand the stuff.) It's getting a little stale, but I would feel guilty just throwing it out.
posted by Iridic 14 December | 17:20
Picking at the backside of your left lower molar in order to remove a pesky husk while I'm trying to discuss your TPS reports is just plain rude.

Does The Pink Superhero know about these reports on her?
posted by essexjan 14 December | 17:40
6) Do not make microwave popcorn at the office as it is extremely stinky and can make people physically ill.

posted by terrapin 14 December | 19:17
IF YOU ARE TAKING MORE THAN SINGLE HANDFUL OF POPCORN, USE A BOWL.

I never understood the concept of using a bowl or cup to scoop out popcorn. If everyone grabs it on a different side, won't the whole thing get covered in cooties? You could be scooping popcorn with the side that was previously held by the guy that never washes his hands. Use a large spoon!
posted by youngergirl44 14 December | 19:18
Microwave popcorn often smells like stale urine to me. Ick. I like real popcorn, but the microwave stuff is vile, and the smell of it at the office nauseates me.
posted by smich 14 December | 19:47
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